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Track of the week: The Mark Cherrie Quartet, One and One Half Miles, Windmill Jazz

Updated: Jul 30






If you are into Othello Molineaux especially in his Monty Alexander pomp - and who isn't? - then 'One and One Half Miles' is something of a must. These steel pan flavours and a deft AfroCuban feel here drawn from late summer release Any Anxious Colour on 'One and One Half Miles' are spliced with a modern jazz accent and shape to the piece.




UK player Mark Cherrie is a seasoned professional steel pan player and keyboardist whose Trinidadian father ran a steel pan band. He follows in his dad's footsteps. And with Cherrie in the course of just over 3 and a quarter minutes adding a diffident elegance is pianist John Donaldson, a 1990s scenester who with Iain Ballamy, Ray Drummond & Victor Lewis shone on Meeting in Brooklyn. Under the bonnet bassist Tom Mason - recall gentle reader his fine work with Robert Mitchell. Partikel drummer Eric Ford comes up with the goods and proves a pacey presence.


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